Albanov, Valerian In The Land Of White Death: An Epic Story Of Survival in The Siberian Arctic Modern Library 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1009064. ISBN #0679641009 / 9780679641001. (filed under: Polar ) *

Albanov, Valerian In The Land Of White Death: An Epic Story Of Survival in The Siberian Arctic Modern Library 2000 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1009064. ISBN #0679641009 / 9780679641001. (filed under: Polar ) *

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In 1912, six months after Robert Falcon Scott and four of his men came to grief in Antarctica, a thirty-two-year-old Russian navigator named Valerian Albanov embarked on an expedition that would prove even more disastrous. In search of new Arctic hunting grounds, Albanov's ship, the Saint Anna, was frozen fast in the pack ice of the treacherous Kara Sea-a misfortune grievously compounded by an incompetent commander, the absence of crucial nautical charts, insufficient fuel, and inadequate provisions that left the crew weak and debilitated by scurvy. For nearly a year and a half, the twenty-five men and one woman aboard the Saint Anna endured terrible hardships and danger as the icebound ship drifted helplessly north. Convinced that the Saint Anna would never free herself from the ice, Albanov and thirteen crewmen left the ship in January 1914, hauling makeshift sledges and kayaks behind them across the frozen sea, hoping to reach the distant coast of Franz Josef Land. With only a shockingly inaccurate map to guide him, Albanov led his men on a 235-mile journey of continuous peril, enduring blizzards, disintegrating ice floes, attacks by polar bears and walrus, starvation, sickness, snowblindness, and mutiny. That any of the team survived is a wonder. That Albanov kept a diary of his ninety-day ordeal-a story that Jon Krakauer calls an "astounding, utterly compelling book," and David Roberts calls "as lean and taut as a good thriller"-is nearly miraculous. First published in Russia in 1917, Albanov's narrative is here translated into English for the first time. Haunting, suspenseful, and told with gripping detail, In the Land of White Death can now rightfully take its place among the classic writings of Nansen, Scott, Cherry-Garrard, and Shackleton.

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Albanov, ValerianIn The Land Of White Death: An Epic Story Of Survival In The Siberian Arctic 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1074023. ISBN #0965018105 / 9780965018104. (filed under: Polar ) *

Albanov, ValerianIn The Land Of White Death: An Epic Story Of Survival In The Siberian Arctic 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1074023. ISBN #0965018105 / 9780965018104. (filed under: Polar ) *

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Anderson, W. ElleryExpedition South hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1115175. (filed under: Polar ) *

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Arms, MyronRiddle Of The Ice: a Scientific Adventure Into The Arctic Doubleday 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016458. ISBN #0385490925 / 9780385490924. (filed under: Polar ) *

Arms, MyronRiddle Of The Ice: a Scientific Adventure Into The Arctic Doubleday 1998 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1016458. ISBN #0385490925 / 9780385490924. (filed under: Polar ) *

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By any account, the impenetrable barrier of sea ice that blocked the Brendan's Isle halfway up the Labrador Coast should not have been there in late July, in what was one of the hottest summers in memory a few hundred miles to the south. Frustrated and mystified at having to turn back so early in his 1991 northbound voyage, sailor Myron Arms became determined to explain the anomaly. Three years later, having pursued this obsession from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to Columbia's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Arms took his fifty-foot sailboat and a small crew back up the coast to test his ideas--this time making it past the Arctic Circle. The days and nights at sea are an experience of both untold vastness and the closest of quarters, of calm seas one hour and pounding gales the next. And by the time the Brendan's Isle rides the great swells of Baffin Bay, north of everything but towering icebergs, the reader can be in no doubt that, together with the crew, he is holding a finger to the very pulse of our planet. Weaving together the unfolding narrative of the voyage itself with a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest theories about Arctic ice production--and the troubling signals it may now be sending us-- Riddle of the Ice is a taut and suspenseful science mystery told as captain's log. This is narrative nonfiction of the highest calibre, and it is certain to become a classic in the genre.

In the whirling noise of our advancing technological age, we are seemingly never alone, never out-of-touch with the barrage of electronic data and information. Felicity Aston, physicist and meteorologist, took two months off from all human contact as she became the first woman -- and only the third person in history to ski across the entire continent of Antarctica alone. She did it, too, with the simple apparatus of cross-country, without the aids used by her prededecessors two Norwegian men each of whom employed either parasails or kites. Aston s journey across the ice at the bottom of the world asked of her the extremes in terms of mental and physical bravery, as she faced the risks of unseen cracks buried in the snow so large they might engulf her and hypothermia due to brutalizing weather. She had to deal, too, with her emotional vulnerability in face of the constant bombardment of hallucinations brought on by the vast sea of whiteness, the lack of stimulation to her senses as she faced what is tantamount to a form of solitary confinement. Like Cheryl Strayed s Wild, Felicity Aston s Alone in Antarctica becomes an inspirational saga of one woman s battle through fear and loneliness as she honestly confronts both the physical challenges of her adventure, as well as her own human vulnerabilities.

Although the Antarctic ice pack and some offshore islands had been sighted and even landed upon briefly as early as the 1820s, it was not until an eccentric Anglo-Norwegian explorer, Carsten F. Borchgrevink, went ashore in 1895 that a human being set foot on the Antarctic continent. Borchgrevink, snubbed by the British establishment, had stolen a march on several planned competing expeditions from Germany and Scandinavia. Borchgrevink returned to Antarctica in 1899 with a party that was the first to winter over on the continent. Regrettably, bad weather and unscalable mountains limited their forays inland. Borchgrevink's survival was proof that with adequate supplies, the Antarctic winter was survivable, and that with a better geographic position, the enormous unknown of the continent could be investigated. Borchgrevink galvanized the British geographical authorities who had come to consider polar exploration their exclusive province. Led by Sir Clements Markham of the Royal Geographic Society, the British keenly felt his blow to their national pride delivered by an explorer they regarded as an arrogant upstart. The RGS pushed forward with its plans, and a tragic competition to be the first to reach the South Pole was set in motion between the British and the Scandinavians. This work is an account of the first tentative human gropings in Antarctica, concentrating on the coalescing of official and popular attitudes that later resulted in the polar races of Robert Falcon Scott and Roald Amundsen, which dominate the story of the "Heroic Era" of Antarctic exploration, from 1901 to 1922.

This is a dramatic true story of Antarctic tragedy and survival among the heroic group that was to lay supplies across the Great Ross Ice Shelf in preparation for the Endurance expedition. Launched by Shackleton and led by Captain Aenaes Mackintosh , this courageous crew completed the longest sledge journey in polar history 199 days and endured near-unimaginable deprivation. They accomplished most of their mission, laying the way for those who never came. All suffered; some died. Now Australian writer Lennard Bickel honors these forgotten heroes. Largely drawn from the author's interviews with surviving team member Dick Richards, this retelling underscores the capacity of ordinary men for endurance and noble action.

Bockstace, John R. Arctic Discoveries: Images From Voyages Of Four Decades in The North University of Washington Press 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or976328. ISBN #029598015X / 9780295980157. (filed under: Polar ) *

Bockstace, John R. Arctic Discoveries: Images From Voyages Of Four Decades in The North University of Washington Press 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or976328. ISBN #029598015X / 9780295980157. (filed under: Polar ) *

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The Arctic is a land of elemental contrasts, a place of both sublime beauty and unforgiving harshness. From the heat and endless light of summer to the punishing cold and deep blue nights of winter, its great organic oneness has been admired and celebrated, as humans have sought to share an existence with, and exert an influence on, its lands and seas. In this photographic essay, John Bockstoce presents vivid images from four decades of sailing, researching, and photographing in Alaska and the North Pacific, the Canadian Arctic, and the North Atlantic. Bockstoce's photographs convey his passion for the stark solitude of land, sky, water, and ice, his admiration for the lives and livelihoods of the Arctic's inhabitants, and his fascination with the haunting traces of a fragile human presence in the Far North. "John Bockstoce is a great Arctic traveler in the earlier, harder sense of that term. He completed the long-sought Northwest Passage, a journey of unparalleled achievement. Starting in an Inuit skin boat at Nome, Alaska, he navigated eastward through ice-choked Canadian waters to the misty headlands of Holsteinsborg, West Greenland. He then sailed south along Labrador's coast to New York. John is an outstanding photographer and author and a true northern voyager." - James Houston, O.C.

The story of the race to the North Pole is told through memoirs, letters, ships' logs, and diaries of Arctic explorers, documenting the motives, modes of travel, and remarkable men who endured the extremes of physical hardship and grim competition, including Robert Peary, Richard Byrd, Fridtjof Nans

The People's Land is an expression of a particular moment in northern history - the darkness, even, that preceded the light. For some years, Hugh Brody lived and studied among the Inuit, the people of the Arctic. His book, The People's Land , describes their recent past with sympathy and indignation. He tells how the Whites came as fur traders and missionaries - and stayed on as administrators, transferring their suburban world incongruously to the north. The predicament of the contemporary Inuit is deeply troubling, embodying as it does - within a very short history - the destructive processes and social deformations that colonialism everywhere entails. As the author writes in the Foreword, this book "is a way of expressing my solidarity with the people who have so tirelessly tried to help me understand what is happening to them now and what they fear might happen to them in the future."

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Bruemmer, FredSeasons Of The Eskimo: A Vanishing Way Of Life 1979 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107249. ISBN #0771017154 / 9780771017155. (filed under: Polar ) *

Bruemmer, FredSeasons Of The Eskimo: A Vanishing Way Of Life 1979 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1107249. ISBN #0771017154 / 9780771017155. (filed under: Polar ) *

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Seasons of the Eskimo: A Vanishing Way of Life Hardcover Fred Bruemmer Author

THE COLD COASTS A detailed and factual account of the 1955 spy-ship mission of the Norwegian sealing vessel God nes. Written and illustrated by an American who was aboard. On that mission, American and Norwegian intelligence officers and scientists conducted an electronic intelligence mission covering Soviet mining operations in Svalbard as well as facilities on nearby Soviet shores. Members of the team also went ashore on Bear Island and Spitsbergen to locate potential sites for military airbases. This was a Cold War adventure in the high Arctic, featuring pack ice, seals and polar bears, and frigid islands just a few hundred miles from the North Pole. It could have become an international incident until a huge ice floe intervened and abruptly ended the mission. In text and photos, the book also describes the lifestyle, now disappeared, of the Norwegian hunters. The Cold Coasts is also the story of a young family man: a geologist who seemed to disappear from the face of the earth while on this mission. Fresh from witnessing atomic testing in the American West, he found himself bound for Russian waters, sharing food and quarters with the seal hunters. The book is available in hardcover, paperback, and Kindle Edition formats.

THE CRYSTAL DESERT: SUMMERS IN ANTARCTICA is the story of life's tenacity on the coldest of Earth's continents. It tells of the explorers who discovered Antarctica, of the whalers and sealers who despoiled it, and of the scientists who are deciphering its mysteries. In beautiful, lucid prose, David G. Campbell chronicles the desperately short summers on the Antarctic Peninsula. He presents a fascinating portrait of the evolution of life in Antarctica and also of the evolution of the continent itself.

The year is 1892. An Inupiat Eskimo mother finds herself far from the village at winter camp. And now her husband has died. Although Qutuuq coo-took is far along in pregnancy, and her children are only seven and nine, the little family sets out toward the Bering Sea coast. Weak from effort and starvation, they plod along each bend in the frozen river until Qutuuq goes into labor. Certain that her own death is imminent, the woman makes a decision that will haunt her forever. Likewise, this powerful narrative will haunt readers long after they close the book. Shared by Qutuuq's great-granddaughter, this true story has been handed down from generation to generation in a culture sustained by its oral history. Family photos round out our understanding of harsh living in this remote region.